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Post by minarellimatt on Aug 10, 2020 12:45:48 GMT
This is my latest acquisition adding to my collection of cotton trials and scrambles machines. This bike was acquired as an unfinished project starting 15 years ago as a box of bits an being put together as you see it now mostly over the last 2 years. Believed to be on the Cotton at the earls court show in 1965 , the fact of which I am still investigating. With a little more T.L.C she will be up an running and being ridden again. Attachments:
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Post by Bob Smith on Aug 10, 2020 16:02:57 GMT
That looks like a really nice Villiers 32A engined Cotton Trials circa 1964/5 as you say. The interesting feature of the bike is the frame. Its an unusually wide duplex frame (the 1963 model was a single down tube configuration) perhaps based on the Cobra / Cougar designs. In 1964 Jon Bliss, a top Gloucestershire rider, had a works Cotton using one of these frames with a 32A engine but fitted with a Parkinson Alloy Barrel and small alloy tank as opposed to the standard larger steel version. He was a top man and had some good results on it but, like his fellow Gloucester contemporaries Tony and Malcolm Davies, was good enough that he could succeed riding anything. The story at the time was that Cotton had a batch of these duplex framed destined for the USA but never delivered and therefore looked to shift them. Look forward to seeing you about on it soon.  |
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